This fair-copy poem-draft, composed around 1882 (RWF) or 1884 (THJ), was found
among Dickinson's papers after her death. After copying the poem, Dickinson marked
the first two lines for transposition. For a variant rough-copy draft of this
poem, see A 332; for related fragments, see A 636a. Dickinson may have jotted down the fragments
on the envelope while working on the rough-copy draft of the poem.